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<p style="margin-top:0cm"><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">Description: </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">Research typically address topics such as “organizational culture”, “project success”, or “trust”. These concepts are latent variables or non-observable variables that cannot be
directly measured with a single metric. Instead, they are indirectly measured using a set of indicators or manifest variables. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) is one way to analyze such nonobservable variables and the relationships between them.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">SEM is a very powerful tool in a variety of scenarios, such as: <br>
1. When the research goal is to predict key constructs or to identify key constructs.<br>
2. When the researcher has complex models (e.g., mediation or moderation effects) that comprise many different constructs, indicators, and relationships.<br>
3. When the research model is evaluated with secondary or archival data</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">Prerequisites:</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">General understanding of quantitative methods is of help but not strictly required</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">Learning objectives:</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">The ultimate goal is to develop from a hypothesized theory a structural model and evaluate it based on the most recent assessment criteria</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">Teaching methods:</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">Lectures, exercises, and individual case studies</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">Criteria for assessment:</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">Written assignment of an individually developed SEM model</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">Organizer:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125"> Daniel Russo (<a href="http://www.danielrusso.org" target="_blank" title="http://www.danielrusso.org/"><span style="color:#0F6CBF">www.danielrusso.org</span></a>)<br>
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</span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">Lecturer:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125"> Daniel Russo, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer
Science, AAU-Copenhagen</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">Short Bio</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">: Daniel is using SEM (in both the Covariance-Based or Partial Least
Squares modes) extensively in his research, in both cross-sectional and longitudinal fashion. Works, using SEM have been published in flagship journals of his research community, such as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.danielrusso.org/files/2021TOSEM_ASM.pdf" target="_blank" title="https://www.danielrusso.org/files/2021TOSEM_ASM.pdf"><span style="color:#0F6CBF">ACM
Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.danielrusso.org/files/2021EMSE_RemoteWork.pdf" target="_blank" title="https://www.danielrusso.org/files/2021EMSE_RemoteWork.pdf"><span style="color:#0F6CBF">Empirical
Software Engineering</span></a>, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.danielrusso.org/files/2019JSS_CooT.pdf" target="_blank" title="https://www.danielrusso.org/files/2019JSS_CooT.pdf"><span style="color:#0F6CBF">The Journal
of Systems and Software</span></a>. He also authored the methodological guidelines for pursuing and reporting SEM studies in Computer Science, published on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3447580" target="_blank" title="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3447580"><span style="color:#0F6CBF">ACM
Computing Surveys</span></a>. As an internationally recognised expert, he is regularly invited to provide opinion or
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">rejoinder</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125"> papers, such as for Communications for the Association for Information
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</span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">ECTS:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125"> 4<br>
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</span><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">Dates</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125"> 8,9,22,23
March and 12 April 2022<br>
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</span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">Place:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125"> Aalborg University<br>
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</span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">City: </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">Aalborg</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">,
Denmark</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125"><br>
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</span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">Number of seats: </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">30<br>
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</span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">Deadline: </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1D2125">05 February 2022</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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